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The New York game : baseball and the rise of a new city
Baker, Kevin
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * Sports Illustrated #1 Book of 2024 * A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game's beginnings to the end of World War II. "You're going to...
Homestand : small town baseball and the fight for the soul of America
Bardenwerper, Will.
Paper Book
A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what's right and wrong with modern America-written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark in...
Charlie Hustle : the rise and fall of Pete Rose, and the last glory days of baseball
O'Brien, Keith
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures-baseball immortal Pete Rose-and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century ....
The MVP machine : how baseball's new nonconformists are using data to build better players
Lindbergh, Ben
Paper Book
Move over, Moneyball -- this New York Times bestseller examines major league baseball's next cutting-edge revolution: the high-tech quest to build better players. As bestselling authors Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik reveal in The...
The baseball 100
Posnanski, Joe
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year "An instant sports classic." --New York Post * "Stellar." --The Wall Street Journal * "A true masterwork...880 pages of sheer baseball bliss." --BookPage...
Play hungry : the making of a baseball player
Rose, Pete
Ebook
A New York Times Bestseller The inside story of how Pete Rose became one of the greatest and most controversial players in the history of baseball Pete Rose was a legend on the field. As baseball's Hit King, he shattered records that were thought to be...
Why we love baseball : a history in 50 moments
Posnanski, Joe
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game- a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball's history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again. Posnanski writes of major moments that created...
Swing kings : the inside story of baseball's home run revolution
Diamond, Jared
Ebook
"The best baseball book I've read in years." -- Sam Walker * "An exhilarating story of innovation."  -- Ben Reiter * " Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." -- Baseball Prospectus ...
Papi : my story
Ortiz, David
Paper Book
An entertaining, unfiltered memoir by one of the game's greatest, most clutch sluggers and beloved personalities David "Big Papi" Ortiz is a baseball icon and one of the most popular figures ever to play the game.  As a key part of the Boston Red...
The 1998 Yankees : the inside story of the greatest baseball team ever
Curry, Jack
Paper Book
Discover the inside story of the 1998 Yankees' unprecedented talent with this gripping account from a reporter who was there for the team's dominating 125 wins.​  The visiting clubhouse in San Diego was soggy, sweaty and sticky after the 1998 Yankees...
Comeback season : my unlikely story of friendship with the greatest living Negro League baseball players
Perron, Cam
Paper Book
The uplifting, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron--a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston--and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major...
Our team : the epic story of four men and the World Series that changed baseball
Epplin, Luke
Paper Book
The riveting story of four men--Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige--whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond. In July 1947, not...
For the good of the game : the inside story of the surprising and dramatic transformation of Major League Baseball
Selig, Bud
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin The longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions...
The grandest stage : a history of the World Series
Kepner, Tyler
Paper Book
From the New York Timesbestselling author of K- A History of Baseball in Ten Pitchescomes the ultimate history of the World Series-a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, filled with humor, lore, analysis, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years...
So many ways to lose : the amazin' true story of the New York Mets, the best worst team in sports
Gordon, Devin
Ebook
"This is a weird, wonderful, and essential book about both America and its pastime. It's about a place as vast as New York City and as intimate as the human heart. Fred Exley meets Richard Ben Cramer--a funny, wild, heartfelt, and keenly observed portrait of yearning itself."--Wright Thompson,...

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